Cross-region data center travel works, they just don't want to implement it.

[ManaEterna]

As the founder of a medium to large size online community centered around cross cultural communication within the FF14 community, I can say that I find the idea of cross region travel to be facinating.
On one side, I think it would be extremely beneficial for communities that want to help increase cross cultural experience and cooperation.
On the other side, having participated in many cross region player events, I can also see that sometimes it can be very difficult to bridge the gap between culture. I think that it can often be quite difficult to go against what you believe to be "the comon sense" brought to you by your background.
I found definitely want to be able to contribute to this cross world travel by being able to help bridge that gap.
As a result I really hope that they take their time in making sure that it does not lead to region drama. ＾＾

[Remish]

I just want to see all the NA club spam work its way over to the JP servers, the drama that will unfold from that will be unforgettable.

Believe it or not, it's actually already happening over there. To a far lesser extent, but it is there.

[DixieBellOCE]

Actually it's quite easy. Just have the matchmaking be for a dedicated region you're going for. It will not effect the people who choose to queue up in their own data center.

Like, say I'm back in Materia, this cope dead data center, I'm from WA, so most of the Aussies are asleep except for me. I can queue up for JP and play with them but with JP ping. There may be an NA player in that party too who used the feature to cross-region matchmake, but they're the ones who need to adjust the ping.

So it won't affect the people who choose to queue in their own data center.

I'm sure somebody on these forums will heavily disagree with what i am about to say.

Ping is never going to be an issue in normal DF content, regardless of which region you get put in, because the content is designed that ANYONE can do it.
I have raided on both JP and NA, and don't have an issue doing mechanics properly on 130/170 ping respectively. Normal content isn't punishing enough that a few mistakes is going to matter at all.

The only issue comes down to communication, but luckily for us, XIV has already solved this issue by making all base level content in the DF so braindead easy that you do not need to communicate to begin with, With a small exception being extreme trial queues (Which could just be removed from DF anyway).

[Xaruko_Nexume]

With the effect even same region xcenter travel has had on servers and data centers, Im not keen on the idea of doing this at all.

[Duskane]

needs to be some limitation because so many people will just go to crystal or Aether
an incentive to go to the smaller DCs (road to 80/90 while visiting,50% of gil rewards from DF/challenge log etc etc) would be nice
or even just not allow visiting for a certain period for DC similar to "Changes in Congested/Preferred Worlds"

[Hanayumi]

Heres how I see it, if theyre afraid of the culture clash they could start off with limited travel like.
Jp <> Oc <> Na <> Eu <>Jp

[Xaruko_Nexume]

Road to 90 for visiting places like Dynamis sounds nice lol or even just road to 80.

[Jeeqbit]

Ping is never going to be an issue in normal DF content, regardless of which region you get put in, because the content is designed that ANYONE can do it.
I have raided on both JP and NA, and don't have an issue doing mechanics properly on 130/170 ping respectively. Normal content isn't punishing enough that a few mistakes is going to matter at all.

I agree, but ping is something people are concerned about despite that. It's like how people care about graphics when graphics have never mattered as much as good gameplay (otherwise nobody would have played all the games in the 80s and 90s ). It's a concern people will have just because.

We could argue the graphics update doesn't matter and that SE should focus on better gameplay and content, but you know a lot of players wouldn't accept that and they can be like this with ping as well and blame ping for their lack of understanding of casts and snapshotting, bad ISP/route and so on.

But it does genuinely affect weaving and abilities such as Swiftcast which can fail to make rez swift if rez is pressed too quick and the player would want to at least expect or be aware this is going to be the case so they can anticipate it or adjust weaving behaviour.

[PirateRyanG]

We should isloate the US from the other regions, but allow cross-region travel between the others. Keep the US out, and most problems with regards to racism/xenophobia/culture bullying, will be solved.

[Absimiliard]

We should isloate the US from the other regions, but allow cross-region travel between the others. Keep the US out, and most problems with regards to racism/xenophobia/culture bullying, will be solved.

So you're just going to casually accuse the US players of exactly what a rather vocal portion of the JP players have been doing this entire time. Aight.